Science

Wednesday, 27 May 2026

Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

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Mushrooms

They can be very expensive.

The most valuable mushrooms are the white truffles. For a 1.5 kg specimen was paid 330,000$.

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Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia is the most common among young people and teenagers.

It is most common in girls and young women, although recently the disorder has been increasingly obs ...

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Moon

Despite its synchronous rotation, the Moon is constantly tilted to one side or the other.

Such deviations are called librations and thanks to them it is possible to observe as much as 59 percent of the surface of the silver globe from Earth.

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Tears

Babies can cry for up to three hours a day.

It is their way of communicating their needs, such as hunger, tiredness, or discomfort.

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NASA

President John F. Kennedy set NASA a goal—to send men to the Moon, and bring them back home safely.

NASA responded to Kennedy’s famous speech, known as “We Choose the Moon,” with the Apollo program (1960-1972).

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Graphene

In diamond, each of carbon’s four valence electrons is involved in the formation of such bonds.

As a result, diamond is a transparent, non-reactive insulator, and graphite is a black conductor, susceptible to chemical modifications.

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NASA

The first living organism sent to space from the U.S. was a chimpanzee called Ham.

Ham, aboard the Mercury Redstone rocket, blasted off on January 31, 1961. “Ham the Astrochimp” was b ...

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Liver

A healthy liver is essential for the brain to function correctly.

It is thanks to the fact that the liver controls the levels of ammonia and regulates plasma glucose ...

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Nicotine

Until the end of the 20th century, it was believed that nicotine did not lead to the development of cancer.

But already in the first decade of the 21st century, this view was questioned and a debate began among scientists about its carcinogenic properties.

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Aurora

In the language of the Sámi people (the native inhabitants of Lapland), the name of the aurora "guovssahasah" means "the sun shining in the sky in the morning or evening".

The Sámi people claimed that creating a song about the aurora borealis is dangerous and threatens to draw polar light on themselves, which bode inevitable death.

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